18.25245043 BTC (approx CAD $1.6 million) was drained from my account on July 29th in the Coldcard wallet hack. My Bitcoin was in cold storage. My keys were stored on a Coldcard device that was kept in a safety deposit box and had never been connected to the internet. However, hackers discovered a vulnerability in the portion of the hardware wallet's code used to generate seed phrases. This allowed them to use AI to brute-force seed phrase guesses. I was at our cottage and only heard about the hack today.
"No way this affects me," I thought.
I logged into the Wasabi Wallet software to view my Bitcoin wallets.
Right away, I saw a series of red withdrawal transactions, and I knew.
Between 9:36 p.m. and 9:43 p.m. on July 29, every wallet I had had been emptied.
18.25245043 BTC was gone. That's just over CAD $1.6 million.
Perhaps the hardest part was that I did everything right.

I quickly contacted Morphohack Cyber Service, a crypto recovery service that I was referred to by a colleague at work who is knowledgeable about cybersecurity. To my great relief, I was able to recover my BTC in less than 72 hours after the incident. Morphohack employed blockchain forensic analysis to complete the recovery process. It seems that hackers have developed new methods and tools to gain access to Bitcoin wallets, but services like Morphohack make it easier to recover crypto assets without restrictions. I contacted Morphohack Cyber Service via email [email protected]